Fighter Pilot - TA Burke 80139

[Andy Ingham]

Does anyone have a photo of Thomas Archibald Burke and does anyone know where he was posted between before October 1943?

I have him with 65 Squadron in early 1942.
Does anyone have the ORB for 65Sqn?
He was then briefly posted to 127 Squadron in the Middle East in October 1943.

Thanks

Andy

[vrajm]

Hi Andy,

F/L T A Burke - the son (seven children) of Tom Archibald Burke a Alice Mary Burke.
Born in Malaysia on July 1, 1920 and died in Oxfordshire, England in Aug 2003.

More:
http://www.cieldegloire.com/002_raf_burke_t_a.php

61 OTU ORB:
…3.12.1942 „F/O Burke (G.D.) posted from R.A.F. Eglinton for flying duties“
17.2.1943 crash-landed at Montford Bridge, Spitfire P7444 (That day the P7366 also crashed, Sgt. F.W. Doidge)

(The accident of the P7366 is there: http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p003.html , the one of P7444 isn’t.)


266 Sqn ORB, May 1943:
„F/L T.A.Burke from 61 OTU w.e.f. 20.4.43 but has not yet joined us"
Nothing more.

His photo with personnel of the Supermarine High Post Experimental Airfield in 1945:

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0-%201804.html

Regards
Mojmir

[Andy Ingham]

Thanks Mojmir
Every little bit helps.
Interesting there is another 127 Squadron pilot in the photo from Flight Global (Peter Hillwood)

Regards

Andy